The mission of the Studio Music and Jazz Instrumental Degree Programs is to:
- Prepare jazz instrumentalists and vocalists to enter the music profession or graduate school;
- Identify, recruit, and retain high-quality students who seek to pursue studio/jazz performance as a career;
- Foster faculty creativity and performance which serves as a role model for students;
- Develop, and revise courses in jazz improvisation, jazz arranging/composition and provide on and off-campus performance opportunities;
- Produce in our on-campus facility, recordings for the DownBeat Student Music Awards, compact disks, radio, and Internet broadcast; and
- Provide a platform of learning that includes performance, composition/arranging, technology, conducting, scholarship, and production.
